ADAM19: a Novel Target for Metabolic Syndrome in Humans and Mice
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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV School of Medicine Publications and Presentations School of Medicine 2017 ADAM19: A Novel Target for Metabolic Syndrome in Humans and Mice Lakshini Weerasekera Caroline Rudnicka Qing-Xiang Sang Joanne E. Curran The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Matthew P. Johnson The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/som_pub Part of the Medicine and Health Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Weerasekera, L., Rudnicka, C., Sang, Q.-X., Curran, J. E., Johnson, M. P., Moses, E. K., Göring, H. H. H., Blangero, J., Hricova, J., Schlaich, M., & Matthews, V. B. (2017). ADAM19: A Novel Target for Metabolic Syndrome in Humans and Mice. Mediators of Inflammation, 2017, 7281986. https://doi.org/10.1155/ 2017/7281986 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Medicine at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Medicine Publications and Presentations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Authors Lakshini Weerasekera, Caroline Rudnicka, Qing-Xiang Sang, Joanne E. Curran, Matthew P. Johnson, Eric K. Moses, Harald H. H. Goring, John Blangero, Jana Hricova, Markus Schlaich, and Vance B. Matthews This article is available at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/som_pub/123 Hindawi Mediators of Inflammation Volume 2017, Article ID 7281986, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7281986 Research Article ADAM19: A Novel Target for Metabolic Syndrome in Humans and Mice Lakshini Weerasekera,1 Caroline Rudnicka,2 Qing-Xiang Sang,3 Joanne E. Curran,4 Matthew P. Johnson,4 Eric K. Moses,5 Harald H. H. Göring,4 John Blangero,4 Jana Hricova,1 Markus Schlaich,1,2 and Vance B. Matthews1 1 School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia 2Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia 3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA 4South Texas Diabetes & Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA 5Centre for Genetic Origins of Health & Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences, University of Western Australia and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Vance B. Matthews; [email protected] Received 13 October 2016; Accepted 12 January 2017; Published 7 February 2017 Academic Editor: Julio Galvez Copyright © 2017 Lakshini Weerasekera et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Obesity is one of the most prevalent metabolic diseases in the Western world and correlates directly with insulin resistance, which may ultimately culminate in type 2 diabetes (T2D). We sought to ascertain whether the human metalloproteinase A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase 19 (ADAM19) correlates with parameters of the metabolic syndrome in humans and mice. To determine the potential novel role of ADAM19 in the metabolic syndrome, we first conducted microarray studies on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from a well-characterised human cohort. Secondly, we examined the expression of ADAM19 in liver and gonadal white adipose tissue using an in vivo diet induced obesity mouse model. Finally, we investigated the effect of neutralising ADAM19 on diet induced weight gain, insulin resistance in vivo, and liver TNF- levels. Significantly, we show that, in humans, ADAM19 strongly correlates with parameters of the metabolic syndrome, particularly BMI, relative fat, HOMA-IR, and triglycerides. Furthermore, we identified that ADAM19 expression was markedly increased in the liver and gonadal white adipose tissue of obese and T2D mice. Excitingly, we demonstrate in our diet induced obesity mouse model that neutralising ADAM19 therapy results in weight loss, improves insulin sensitivity, and reduces liver TNF- levels. Our novel data suggest that ADAM19 is pro-obesogenic and enhances insulin resistance. Therefore, neutralisation of ADAM19 may be a potential therapeutic approach to treat obesity and T2D. 1. Introduction proteins, in metabolic disorders. ADAMs are proteolytic enzymes which regulate cell phenotype through affecting Obesity is one of the most prevalent metabolic diseases in cell adhesion, migration, proteolysis, and signalling [2]. Our the Western world and correlates with glucose intolerance, group was the first to identify that ADAM28 is elevated in insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular disease. humans with the metabolic syndrome and is a novel sheddase These metabolic parameters may ultimately culminate in of human tumour necrosis factor- (TNF-)[3].Relevantly, pancreatic beta cell failure and type 2 diabetes (T2D) [1]. TNF- is a major proinflammatory cytokine implicated in the As the financial and social burden of obesity escalates, it is metabolic syndrome [4, 5] and it is well established that TNF- crucial to develop new human therapeutics to alleviate the induces insulin resistance [6, 7]. Similarly, the activity of adverseconsequencesofthemetabolicsyndrome. ADAM17, also known as TNF- converting enzyme (TACE), There has been growing interest in the role of metallo- correlateswithinsulinresistance[8,9]andadministration proteinases or A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase (ADAM) of TACE inhibitors to humans in clinical trial settings has 2 Mediators of Inflammation proven to effectively decrease inflammatory mediators [10]. weeks. Body weights were recorded on a weekly basis. At Interestingly, our group and others have shown that TNF- the end of the experiment, mice were sacrificed and the liver is also a substrate for ADAM19 [11–13] and therefore it is andgonadalwhiteadiposetissuewascollectedforparaffin possiblethatADAM19mayhaveanunderlyingroleinthe embedding for immunohistochemistry and snap frozen in pathogenesis of obesity and T2D. liquid nitrogen for mRNA studies. ADAM19, also known as meltrin , was identified and In our second cohort of mice, eight-week-old male characterised by our team [14, 15] and others [16]. ADAM19 specific pathogen-free C57BL6/J mice were obtained from the contains several complex domains, including a pro-domain, Animal Resources Centre (ARC, Perth). Mice were placed on metalloproteinase domain, disintegrin domain, cysteine-rich different diet/antibody treatment regimes: (1) standard chow domain, epidermal growth factor-like domain, transmem- (=9); (2) high fat diet, administered rabbit pre-immune brane domain, and cytoplasmic tail domain [15]. Of most IgG (=3); (3) high fat diet, administered rabbit ADAM19 relevance, the metalloproteinase domain of ADAM19 is neutralising antibody (=3). Neutralising antibodies were knowntobeinvolvedinextracellularmatrixbreakdownand administered at week 10 of the dietary regiment as ADAM19 reconstruction [14]. One of the most important functions protein is increased at this time-point in tissues such as liver. carried out by the metalloproteinase domain of ADAM19 Mice received 100 g of antibody every 2 days via tail vein is the catalytically mediated ectodomain shedding of sub- for the final two weeks of feeding. Insulin tolerance tests strates[14]suchasTNF-. ADAM19 is expressed in numer- (ITT; 0.5 U/kg) and glucose tolerance tests (GTT; 1 g/kg) were ous metabolically relevant cell types and tissues, including performed at the end of week 12. Body weight measurements peripheral blood mononuclear cells, liver, and skeletal muscle were determined each week. Mice were sacrificed at the end [14]. Furthermore, ADAM19 has been linked to numerous of the experiment and their blood was collected for serum diseases [15] and serves important biological functions in and livers were collected for paraffin embedding. embryogenesis [17], cardiovascular system development [18], and skeletal muscle adaptation [19]. Our study is the first to 2.3. ADAM19 Neutralising Antibody. The rabbit ADAM19 examine the role of ADAM19 in obesity, insulin resistance, neutralising antibody [pAb361] used for our experiments is and T2D. well characterised by our team [21, 22]. In this study, we hypothesised that ADAM19 is associated with the metabolic syndrome in humans and mice. The out- 2.4. ADAM19 Immunohistochemistry on Murine Liver. Liver comes of this study provide novel insights into the ADAM19- tissue of mice fed with standard chow or HFD was fixed mediated pathogenesis of obesity, insulin resistance, and in 4% paraformaldehyde and paraffin embedded. Standard T2D. immunohistochemistry procedures were conducted, includ- ing antigen retrieval and incubations with primary antibody 2. Materials and Methods (rabbit anti-hADAM19 disintegrin domain IgG (pAb362)) 2.1. Human Microarray for the Identification of Metallopro- at a 1:200 dilution [21, 23]. Sections were visualised with teinases Involved in Obesity and T2D. RNA samples (from diaminobenzidine (DAB; DAKO). peripheral blood mononuclear cells) were obtained from the San Antonio Family Heart Study (SAFHS) ( = 1240), a 2.5. Adam19 and Tnf- mRNA Expression Studies in Livers study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Mexican and/orGonadalWhiteAdiposeTissueofMiceFedaHFD. Americans living in and around San Antonio, Texas